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Originally Posted by Poker_Geek
@Jon
This product is over 6 months old, has there been any updates along the way to your original product?
I'm always very hesitant to buy any poker product than is more than a few months old because the games changes so quick.
No, there haven't been any updates. I never planned to deliver such material to customers and don't plan to do so in the future. I chose to take a different approach than some authors have taken: instead of putting X amount of effort into the original product and promising to update it with some predetermined frequency, I spent enough time and effort on the original product to be certain that "supplemental material" would be associated with relatively little utility.
In other words, my man Honey Badger is right. From
my coaching thread:
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Originally Posted by me
Being a strong poker player is hardly about understanding how to handle the typical player in a specific game. It's about understanding the sorts of things that are crucial to think about in any game and how to go about such thinking.
I believe this wholeheartedly. I don't mean to imply that poker literature can never be outdated; that's not my point. Poker literature that advises you, "Your opponents are likely to do A, and the optimal counter to this is B" will necessarily become outdated sooner or later. For example,
Super System -- as great as it was when it was released -- relies heavily on the premise that the average player folds way too often to bets and raises and that it's therefore optimal to bluff and semi-bluff constantly to take advantage of this. This was great advice in 1979 when very few players were willing to play big pots without nutish hands, but when "the games change[d]" and that ceased to be the case, Doyle's advice lost much of its punch.
Truly strong poker literature is timeless. Instead of telling you, "Do B because your opponents will probably do A," my approach in SFH is along the lines of, "Consider the information we have on the opponent against whom you're playing this hand. The sample you have on him indicates that he's C, D, and E. Against players who are C, D, and E, it makes sense to do F in this scenario. With that being said, it's possible that G is the case. Insofar as you believe G is the case, your adjustment against this player should be H because of I, J, and K."
Poker math is never going to change, and sound poker logic is never going to change. I believe SFH is "truly strong poker literature." Thus, I'm comfortable advertising it as the cream of the crop in late November even though I put it together in January, February, and March.
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Originally Posted by 1aday
When are you dropping the price?
I don't know that I'll ever drop the price. However, I do have
a promotion running at the moment. It doesn't make it possible to buy SFH for less than $500, but it does make it possible to buy a package including SFH and a handful of hours of my personal coaching for significantly less than I'd normally charge you for it. I'll also send you a quick PM in a moment.